Check-ring for rotary vessels.



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CHECK RING FOR ROTARY VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY l5,19t0.

Patented. July 17-, 1917.-

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 15. I9 l0.

Patented July 17, 1917.

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CHECK RtNG FOR ROTARY VESSELS.

APPLICATION men JULY 15.1910.

Patentec'll July 17, 1917.

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J OH1\T W. HORNSEY, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL REDUCTION GAS AND BY-PRODUCTS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

CHECK-RING FOR ROTARY VESSELS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July Ti, 1917.

Application filed July 15, 1910. Serial No. 572,131.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. HoRNsnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, Union county, New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Check-Rings for Rotary Vessels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a section in perspective of a rotary cylinder equipped with check rings and buckets;

Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1 in elevation;

Fig. 3 is a detail of a check ring or retarding rib;

Fig. 4 is a detailed plan of Fig. 3 looking from the bottom and showing lock bars in position;

Fig. 5 is a detail of Fig. 2 in elevation;

Fig. 6 is a detail of locking means for securing the buckets on line VIVI of Fig. 5.

Similar letters and figures of reference, refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My invention relates to improvements in check rings for rotary vessels for the treatment of materials, and is designed to treat materials of either gaseous, vaporous, liquid, semi-liquid, or other fluid or solid form, either in contact or out of contact with a treating medium or a chemical reagent.

My invention is of particular value when used with rotary apparatus, since it enables material of any character to be treated by preventing it from flowing too rapidly down the inclined surface of the rotating cylinder, and when used in conjunction with elevating buckets assists in maintaining the material in a finely sub-divided form.

I shall herein show and describe my apparatus in the forms which I have found to be preferable for actual use, but it will be understood that many changes may be made, and that the forms here illustrated and described constitute merely preferred embodiments of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a section of a cylinder, supported in any suitable fashion so that it can be inclined, and adapted also to be rotated by any suitable mechanism. At suitable intervals along the interior of the cylinder 1 are arranged the check rings or retarding ribs 2, which consist of annular rings attached to the cylinder in any appropriate fashion, as for instance, by riveting the lugs 32, Figs. 3 and 4, to the inside surface of the cylinder 1. The'height and spacing of the ribs or rings 2 may be varied to suit the material being treated, it being apparent that the ribs 2 will be of great advantage in treating liquids in order to prevent the liquid from flowing through the inclined cylinder too rapidly. The ribs also are of advantage in treating solids, in that they prevent more or less globular-shaped pieces from rolling down the inclined longitudinal surface of the cylinder and being discharged with a treated exterior but with an untreated core or center. The ribs 2 tend to prevent this rolling and allow the globular-shaped pieces or lumps to be broken up, and thereby the product of the inclined cylinder is greatly improved both as respects quality and uniformity.

The check rings 2 are spaced at any desired interval and may have grooves 3, as shown more particularly in Figs. 3, a and 5, on each of their faces in approximately radial directions, though these grooves may be of any shape or direction desired. The longitudinal buckets l, which are preferably of lesser height than the rings 2, are slid into these grooves 3 and are retained in position by the lock bars 5, Figs. 2, 2 and 6, which are approximately U-shaped in cross section, as indicated in Fig. 8, and are in the shape of segments of a circle in order that they may be readily removed. At the ends of the lock bars 5 are the keys 6 which are wedge-shaped and are adapted to force the lock bars 5 into position and to secure them. These keys 6 have holes 7 passing through them and are adapted to receive pins 8 which pass also through the check rings 2 andthereby retain the keys 6 and lock bars 5 in position.

It will be noted that there are a number of different grooves 3 (Figs. 3, 4 and 5) on the faces of the check rings 2, which are provided in order to permit the use of buckets of varying inclinations, shapes and capacities so as to adapt them to materials of different consistencies, one type of bucket being indicated. by 4.

I' may use any equivalent means for attaching the buckets to the check rings; but the particular advantage possessed by the method illustrated,- is that it enables buckets of various sizes, shapes, inclinations and capacities to be interchanged with the minimumexpenditure of time and labor. The lock bars 5 and keys 6. when used in conjunction with the check. rings 2, possess also the further advantage that they force the buckets 4 tightly against the inside wall of the cylinder and thereby prevent the leakage of liquids undergoing treatment, which mightotherwise leak down between the outside edges of the buckets 4 and theinside wall of the cylinder without being elevated and redistributed by the buckets in the manner intended. At 4, Fig. 2, I have shown a longitudinal bucket broken away so as to indicate the cross-sectional shape ofithe same, which will be seen to have aprojecting lip9 in order to retain the material in the buckets 4 while they are being lifted from the lowest to the highest position. Theselips-9 and the buckets 4 to which they belong, may be of any desired shape andmay vary in difierent cylinders or in diflerent parts of the same cylinder, as may be best suitedto the particular substance which they may be called upon to handle. Obviously the lips 9 may be omitted. It is, however, desirable that the buckets be so shaped and proportioned that they will spill their contents in an approximately steady stream, that is, they should be approximately half full as they pass their highest position, so that half their contents may spill out on either side of the highest position, which will give. a sufficiently uniform distribution for'allpractical purposes, and, particularly if 'the buckets between alternate pairs of check rings be staggered as shown in. Figs. 3, 4 and' 5, will obviate the formation of'voids orblank V shaped spaces through which a treating gas can pass without coming in contact with the shower. of material in a thoroughly efiicient manner.

The buckets 4' in. conjunction with the check rings 2 are also of particular advantage in treatingcohesive solids, in that they tend to produce aimore even distribution of the material; and. when marbles-"tend to form,; such agglomerated masses are of smaller size, and as they fall from the bucketsto the lower portion of the rotating cylinder, are broken by impingementupon the surface of the cylinder, or. uponeach other, lose theirgl'obularshape and thereaf ter graduallyybreakup, and the material is, therefore, discharged in. a more uniform con-. dition as to quality, dryness, size and temperature than has heretofore been possible.

I'hav'e described andshown my improvements attached: to an apparatus in the form in which the treating medium is admitted into the cylinder in contact with the material being treated, but it is to be understood that I do not confine myself to the form described and shown, as this improved check ring or retarding rib may advantageously be applied to any and all forms of rotating apparatus. By the use of my invention materials of widely varying kinds may be effectively treated-such as sugar, starch, salt, milk, coal, lignite, peat, sawdust, petroleum, tannic acid, molasses, ores of various characters and many other substances'whether elimination of'moisture, concentration, evaporation, crystallization, fractional or destructive distillation, purification, physical, mechanical or chemical transformation or change is desired.

My apparatus is also especially adapted for the manufacture, purification or cleansing'of illuminating and other gases, with or without the presence of a treating medium, or for the fractional or destructive distilla tion' of materials-in the presence of a source of heat out of'contact with the materiali lVhat I claim is:

1. In apparatus for treating materials, a rotating vessel, aseries of rings arranged transversely to the travel of the material through the vessel, buckets arranged between said rings, the said buckets being removably secured to and supported by said rings.

2: In apparatus for treating materials-,a rotating vessel, a plurality of rings arranged 100 transversely within said vessel, buckets extending longitudinally in said vessel, said rings being equipped with means for supporting the buckets at' varying angles.

31 In rotary apparatus for treating materials a series of rings for'retarding' the travel of a material through said apparatus, and buckets supported by said rings'for elevatin and redistributingthe said material.

4. 'n apparatus for treating materials a rotating chamber, a plurality of ribs arranged transversely within said chamber, buckets extending longitudinally in said chamber, saidribs having grooved sides adapted to receive and secure the ends'of said buckets.

5. In apparatus for treating: mat'erialsa rotating; vessel havingtherein a chamber for thetreatment of materials, a plurality'of rings arranged transversely within said chamber, buckets extending longitudinally in said chamber, said rings having grooved sides adapted to receive the ends of'said buckets, and locking'means secured to'said rings whereby the said buckets are secured thereto;

6. Inapparatus for treating liquid mat'erials, arotating vessel in which-the'liquid material is to be treated While passing theretardi'ng rings arranged transversely to the through, retarding means therein c01npristravel of the material through the vessel, 10 ing ribs arranged transversely t0 the travel buckets arranged between the rings of lesser of the material and means for elevating height than the rings.

5 liquid material and distributing it substan- JOHN W. HORNSEY.

tially across the cross section of the vessel. Witnesses:

7. In apparatus for treating materials, a R. I. MIDDLETON, rotating vessel, a plurality of material-re- G. HANSEN.

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